Gestures and Words in Naming: Evidence from Crosslinguistic and Crosscultural Comparison

Autor/inn/en	Cattani, Allegra; Floccia, Caroline; Kidd, Evan; Pettenati, Paola; Onofrio, Daniela; Volterra, Virginia
Titel	Gestures and Words in Naming: Evidence from Crosslinguistic and Crosscultural Comparison
Quelle	In: Language Learning, 69 (2019) 3, S.709-746 (38 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Cattani, Allegra) ORCID (Floccia, Caroline) ORCID (Kidd, Evan) ORCID (Onofrio, Daniela) ORCID (Volterra, Virginia)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0023-8333
DOI	10.1111/lang.12346
Schlagwörter	Nonverbal Communication; Toddlers; Cross Cultural Studies; Italian; English; Comparative Analysis; Nouns; Task Analysis; Foreign Countries; Speech Communication; Contrastive Linguistics; Monolingualism; Language Processing; Scores; Form Classes (Languages); Language Acquisition; Linguistic Input; Cultural Influences; Measures (Individuals); Correlation; Italy; United Kingdom; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Non-verbal communication; Nonverbale Kommunikation; Infant; Infants; Toddler; Kleinkind; Cultural comparison; Kulturvergleich; Italienisch; English language; Englisch; Aufgabenanalyse; Ausland; Linguistics; Kontrastive Linguistik; Sprachverarbeitung; Analytischer Sprachbau; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Sprachbildung; Cultural influence; Kultureinfluss; Messdaten; Korrelation; Italien; Großbritannien; Australien
Abstract	We report on an analysis of spontaneous gesture production in 2-year-old children who come from three countries (Italy, United Kingdom, Australia) and who speak two languages (Italian, English), in an attempt to tease apart the influence of language and culture when comparing children from different cultural and linguistic environments. Eighty-seven monolingual children aged 24-30 months completed an experimental task measuring their comprehension and production of nouns and predicates. The Italian children scored significantly higher than the other groups on all lexical measures. With regard to gestures, British children produced significantly fewer pointing and speech combinations compared to Italian and Australian children, who did not differ from each other. In contrast, Italian children produced significantly more representational gestures than the other two groups. We conclude that spoken language development is primarily influenced by the input language over gesture production, whereas the combination of cultural and language environments affects gesture production. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01